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. RHRIGERATOR.

APPLlcAloN HLEUAUG. 1s, 1916-'.

H. N ANTZ.

Patented Aug. 19, 1919.

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Attorneys J. H. NA'NTZ.

REFRIGERATOR. APPLICATION FILED AUG. I6. 1916. 1,313,552, Patented Aug. 19,1919. y I l 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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Wtneses f 7 l by f'corneys UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIcE.,

JOHN HENRY NAN TZ, OF SAMSON, ALABAMA.

REFRIGERATEUR.

Specication of Letters lPatent. Patented Aug. 19,1919.

Application led August 16, 1916. Serial No. 115,251.

To all whom t 'laag concern.'

Be it known that I, JOHN H. NANTz, av

cuously in the box, it has been necessary to move them about in order to pick out a bottle containing the beverage desired. This movement of the bottles has -often resulted in the breakage of some of them, and the broken glass left in the box has often caused injury to the hands of the user. Furthermore is` lhas beenimpossible to uniformly cool the contents of thebottles when the bottles are-placed on the ice in this manner.

One. of the objects of the present invention is tol provide a refrigerator having an ice box combined therewith, there being a bottle holder within the refrigerator and which is adapted to be partly or entirely4 submerged in the ice water drained from the ice box so that the bottles carried by 'the holder will thus be thoroughly chilled andl will at all times be systematically arranged.

A further object is to provide' a` holder` which can be easily shifted to bring any desired bottle to position where it canbe easily reached and removed. l

With the foregoing and other ob]ects in.

view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement-of parts and in the details'of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without 'departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanyingdrawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings refrigerator embodying the present limprovements, said section being taken from one end to the other thereof on the line 1-1 Fig. 3.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the refrigerator.

Fig. 3 is a section on line 37- 3 of Fig. 2.

4 is an enlarged lan view of one of the holders, the shaft t ereof being shown in sectlon.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates a housing having a refrigerating chamber 2 and mounted above 'the back portion of this housing and preferably extending throughout the width thereo f is an ice box 3 having a suitably located closure 4 whereby access may be had conveniently to the interior of the ice box. That portion of the top of housing 1 in front of the ice box 3 is provided with separate closures 5 arranged side by side and which 4can be opened independently of each other.

The ice box 3 hasan outlet 6 opening into a drain pipe 7 which is supportedI within the housin tom thereo An overflow pipe 8 is arranged within the housing 1 and is provided near its .upper end witha tra 9L This trap prevents air from backing t rough the pipe into the housing and at 'the same time maintains a predetermined level of water within the housing.

The interior of the housing 1 may be divided; into separate chambers 10 and 11 -by a depending partition 12 extending below the surfaceA of the water contained in the housing.

Arranged preferably at the center of each of the chambers 10 and 11 is a-vertical shaft 13 mounted in suitable bearings 14 upon the bottom of said housing 1 andalso upon the top thereof. Eaclf of these shafts 13 ex- 1 and extends-close to the bottends through the center of a supporting disk 15- which may be made of foraminous materialso that water can circulate freely therethrough. Arranged above the supporting disk is a cellular holder 16 which may be made of wire rings having suitably spaced connections as shown particularly in Fig. 4, the spaces between the rings and connections being suiiicient to receive bottles such 'as are to be cooled in the refrigerator.l Aholder such as described will support al number of bottles on the foraminous disk 15 andthebottles will be held properly spaced apart and constantly on end by the cellular member 16. Figure 1 is a vertical sectionthrough-`a It will be apparent that when ice is placed in the box 3, air will be free te circulate erators. Thus the -air within the refrigerating 4chambers 10 and 11 will be maintained at a low temperature. In addition to this the ice water drained from the box 3 will flowthrough the pipe 7 and into the housing l and will be maintained at the top ofthe level of the drain 'pipev 8. Consequently- Ythe holders 15--16 .will lbe submerged as will also be'the lower ends of the bottles mounted on the holders. Consequently ,the said bottles will be quickly chilled and by rotating either of the holders any desired bottle can be brought .to position where itcan be readily reached through the top of the housing 1. As has heretofore been stated, either of the closures 5 can be opened and, consequently, the refrigerator will be particularly useful where soft drinks or the like are 'to be dispensed, inasmuch as' bottles can be placed on one of the holders and be cooling while previously cooled'bottles are dispensed from the other holder.`

Obviously the refrigerator can be enlarged sofas to have more than two holders. It will -be noted that the cold water discharged into the housing l from the ice bo'x\ is delivered into said housing close'to the bottom thereof, while the pipe 8 will carry of the warm water at the surface of the body of water withinthe housing.

By providing a refrigerator such as described, the beverages contained in the bot# tles can -be kept cool with the minimum amount of ice in view of the fact that the ice water is used in addition to the ice. and I the cold air currents for maintaining the` contents at a low temperature.

p spaced from the bottom of the lower chamber, a drain pipe from the ice chamber upon one side of the partition and an overflow pipe within the lower chamber upon the other side of the partition for maintaining the level of the water within said chamber above the lower edge of the partition thereby to constitute a water seal between the portions of the cooling chamber at opposite sides of the partition and to provide for a circulation of the cooling medium.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aiiixed mysignature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN HENRY NANTZ. Witnesses:

'W. N. MORRIS, R. H. DAwKINs. 

